Game



May 6, H330. c. E. MAHR 1,757,870

GAME

Filed Dec. l2, 1929 Patented May 6, 1930 UNITED STATES CARL E. MAHR, FROOT, NEW YORK GAME Application filed December 12, 1929. Serial No.413,612.

This invention relates to a game and particularly -a game which iscapable of being played indoors and which will provide a high degree offascination and amusement while 6 'at the same time requiring a certainamount of skill upon the part of the player or players.

A main object of the game is to provide a new and improved game boardupon which a series of counters may be disposed and which are to bedisplaced by the players by means of projectiles.

A further obj ect of the invention is to provide a game which iscompetitive and which is capable of retaining the interest of theplayers for considerable periods of time.

With these and other objects which will become apparent from thedetailed description which follows, the invention consists in thecombination and arrangement of elements below set forth, claimed in theclaims appended hereto and shown in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is aplan view of the game board with certain of the counters removed fromthe depressions therefor in order to show the construction of thedepressions more clearly,

Figure 2 is a sectional view upon the line 3o' 22 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 illustrates in plan view a receptacle with the counterstherein,

Figure 4 is a plan view of the receptacle with the proj etciles, andVFigure 5 is a cross-sectional View upon line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Referring to the drawings in which like reference characters refer tolike parts throughout the various views, 5 indicates the tangular inshape and flat so as to rest upon any horizontal surface, and 6, 7 and 8are the sides of the game board 5 raised above the upper surface of saidgame board so as to form a boundary about three sides of the game boardto confine the counters and projectiles upon the top surface of the gameboard. The side 9 of the game board is open and the projectiles areprojected from this end of the owgame board toward the counters 10disposed 'base of a game board which is preferably recin the recesses 1lwhich are located in any desired arrangement within the circle 12 drawnupon the game board in the position indicated. j 1

@ne of the counters 10 is of slightly larger size as shown at 14 and thecounter 14 is intended to be placed at the central recess ll as shown inFigure 1.

V`Upon the gaine board in the further corners thereof are provided twopockets 15 which are marked Player Guti and in the center Y of the gameVboard directly in'back ofthe circle 12 is provided another pocket 16which is marl-red Game Hole.

rlhe projectiles used are shown at 17 in Figure 4 while 18 indicates areceptacle for the counters 10 and 14 when the counters are not in useand 19 indicates a receptacle for the projectiles 17 when not -in use.

The recesses 1l are constructed in a peculiar way shown Amoreparticularlyv in Figure 2 and they consist of a counter-sunk portion 2Oin the game board itself which is preferably made of wood and in thecounter-sunk portion 2O is placed a cup-shaped receptacle 21 having theflanges 22 thereon adapted to rest upon the top surface of the gameboard. The receptacle 2l is secured to the gameboard itself by means ofa screw or other fastening means 23. The counters are preferably ordi-80 nary marbles, but it is of courseobvious that metal spheres orspheres of other construction can likewise be used in place of themarbles. The projectiles 17 are also preferably marbles which are of acontrasting color from the counter marbles.

The game is played as follows:

The various recesses 11 have assigned thereto a certain predeterminedvalue, such as 5, shown within the circle in Figure 1, while the centralrecess preferably has the value 20 assigned thereto as shown. The gamehole has assigned thereto a value of 100, as shown. It is of courseapparent that any other values desired may be assigned to these variousrecesses and pockets. The player takes the projectiles 17 and projectsthem from the side 9 of the game board 5 toward the counters 10 and 14which are all n in place upon the various recesses provided 100 withinthe circle and endeavors to displace as many as possible without at thesame time directing the projectile itself into either one of the pockets15 which would automatically retire the player from the game. If anycounters drop into the pocket 16, such counters would count 100 towardsthe game total while any counters displaced from the recesses and movedoutside of the circle l2 will count either 5 or 2O depending upon therecess from which they are moved toward the game total. It is necessarythat the counters be displaced out of the circle l2 in addition to beingdisplaced out of the recess itself in order to count toward the gametotal.

The purpose of the flanges 22 upon the receptacles 21 becomes apparentsince these flanges prevent the re-entry as a usual thing of a counterinto a recess after it has once been displaced from a recess. In thegame described, the game total is preferably placed at 200.

When any number of players up to four are competing in the game, theneach player projects all four projectiles unless he is automaticallyretired from the game by one of the projectiles rolling into a PlayerOut hole, and after such player has rolled his four projectiles then theboard is rearranged again with all the counters in place and the nextplayer projects the four projectiles. If more than four players arecompeting, then it is generally more satisfactory and more interestingif each player only projects two projectiles.

The player who first scores 200 of course wins the game, or if more thanone player has scored 200 then the one with the largest total scoredwill be the winner.

From the above description it is apparent that a very interesting andfascinating indoor game has been devised which will furnish amusementand interest to a plurality of players, but it is also apparent thatvarious modifications may be made in the structure of the game boarditself as well as the rules for playing the game without departing fromthe spirit of the invention, and it is my intention to include all suchmodifications and changes as will fall within the spirit and scope ofthe following claim.

I claim:

A gaine board of rectangular configuration, a raised border upon threesides thereof allowing projectiles to be projected at the other side, aseries of recesses in said game board located within a circular' border,receptacles located in said recesses for counters, flanges upon saidreceptacles resting upon the surface of said game board to preventaccidental reentry of said counters into said receptacles when saidcounters have been displaced therefrom, a series of hazard pockets insaid game board located outside said circular border and a target pocketalso located outside said circular border.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

CAR-L E. MAI-IR.

